<u>Mary Maverick's memoirs are a great source of information about the daily life of Texas resident sin the civil war era</u> and the situation of the population that lived can be found in the daily recordings of the lifestyle by Maverick.
<u>She was one of the early pioneers of the memoir form which becomes a very important historical document</u> of the everyday life of the common people from a past time in the history of the place one needs to study.